An increasing number of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies are now taking place in
applied settings with children. These interactions often hinge on verbal interaction to …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in children is a rapidly evolving field, as children
become more accustomed to interacting with virtual assistants, such as Amazon Echo …

Child-robot interaction is an interdisciplinary research area that has been attracting growing
interest, primarily focusing on edutainment applications. A crucial factor to the successful …

This paper presents a comprehensive study on enhancing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
and Industrial Metaverse applications through the integration of On-Device Automatic …

Current ASR systems show poor performance in recognition of children's speech in noisy
environments because recognizers are typically trained with clean adults' speech and …

This article presents a study in which we explored the effect of a social robot on the
explanatory behavior of children (aged 6--10) while working on an inquiry learning task. In a …

Robots are already present in people's lives as receptionists, caregivers, and tutors. In
human-robot interaction, social behavior is not only expected but often associated with …

The study is aimed at investigating the formation of acoustic features of speech in typically
develo** (TD) Russian-speaking children. The purpose of the study is to describe the …

The use of robots as educational partners has been extensively explored, but less is known
about the required characteristics these robots should have to meet children's expectations …

In this study, a computer-driven, phoneme-agnostic method was explored for assessing
speech disorders (SDs) in children, bypassing traditional labor-intensive phonetic …